In the article, published in a renown international journal with a high impact factor, is presented a comparative ethnographic material on volunteer biodiversity monitoring from environmental organisations in three postcommunist countries: Poland, Slovenia, and Lithuania. Its authors chart and discuss aspects of the heritage from socialism and communist rule in terms of their effect on the present-day running and operations of four case-study organisations in these countries, focusing particularly on challenges posed by the legacy of compulsory volunteering, inherited organisational cultures, economic reorganisation, and internationalisation of the volunteering sector. In closing we indicate certain key differences between our case-study organisations, focusing on factors that influenced their ability to operate in the postcommunist nongovernmental organisation sector, and offer some observations of more general relevance.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 44927330In the book the author attempts to explain honour and researches shame in various cultural and historical circumstances. Both terms are presented beyond ethics of virtues, since they are culturally, economically and indirectly religiously generated. They appear in several areas of everyday life: in government, defense, politics, culture, law, academic world, sport, family and human rights. Honour is a part of collective identity and power relations. Ethics of honour is also important to understand a moral foundation of behaviour in our own and in foreign cultures. The book provides an up-to-date overview of basic terms of culturally and historically specific understanding of honour and shame. Such themes are especially relevant in discussions of human rights, rights of women, relations between the church and the state, hate speech, violence and praise of false honour. References to honour are at the same time a matter of a morale, symbolic capital and social, and also a matter of principles about people equality, defined in various documents on human rights.
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